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Monday, January 31, 2011

One World One Heart 2011

Hi! Welcome to my One World One Heart Giveaway!

My name is Miss Mary, and my blog exists to document my handwork while putting it in the context of a long line of women who sew. My blog is named for Lillian Catherine, my great-grandmother. One of her hand-stitched quilts hangs on my wall, and one of her quilt tops serves as the background image of this blog. Recently I encountered a picture of her I'd never seen before and was struck by such a familiar profile, even before I learned it was Lillian.

For more information about me and what kinds of projects I enjoy, see the label cloud in the sidebar.

Now for the giveaway!

I am giving away quilter's cotton:

1 fat eighth of zebra print

1 fat quarter of seafoam dot

40 five-inch charm squares ranging from blues to browns and including some walnut-dyed print

To enter, please leave a comment by February 17.

In your comment, please tell me something you are doing now that you never expected to be doing, or tell me something you are doing or have done that you thought was impossible!

Personally, I am looking at going back to school and studying some conglomerate of neuroscience, math, possibly physics, who knows where the adventure will take me. Meanwhile I am excited about doing something I never would have imagined for myself and turning something seemingly impossible into reality!

Make sure you either include your email address in your comment or your email address can be found through your blog profile. The giveaway is open internationally, and random.org will select my winner.

Thanks so much, and click the image at the top or in the sidebar to enjoy the OWOH ride!

137 comments:

It looks like I am the first to share something about myself that is unexpected or impossible... holy smokes, that is a tough one! I'm going to say that this year I will make a greater effort to drive on the highway when we are travelling!

The first thing I noticed was the family resemblance between you and your great grandmother even before I read your post. Uncanny. My grandmothers were also quilters and I am happy to be the preserver of several of their quilts for future generations. I keep one draped over the chair in my studio and everytime I lean back against it I feel comforted, just like getting a hug. I'm so glad to meet you, you seem like a kindred spirit. Hope you have a wonderful time at the OWOH. Hugs!

Greetings!...So pleased to visit your lovely blog. I am a Canadian Mixed Media and Digital Artist and look forward to meeting a new friend. I hope you will visit my blog as well. http://gaylepage-robak.blogspot.com or #230 on the OWOH list.

I think the thing that's been surprising to me...that I thought was impossible...is keeping one man's interest for 16 years now! If you would've asked my practical young self what my odds were of meeting my soulmate at 21 was, I would've easily said nil! Ha!

How wonderful you plan to go to study! I would love to write a book, a historical non fiction book and hope I can really do so in the future. I also would love to make an American quilt once (all though I can't but hope to learn). Love the fabrics! Please enter me in your give away. I am also a participant in OWOH :)

<3 I love your comment! ~*Thank you very much!*~:o)I LOVE nano scale and one day I'd love to work in a clean room (Not my studio- I mean the type where they work on micro scale work.No dust and no excess vibrations. I'll be able to achieve VERY tiny work!!!It will be fun!One day!:o)Amber(the one with the tiny cupcakes, lemons etc.)

I´d love to win your fabrics as "sewing more" is on my schedule for 2011"! I´m in an online class about digital journaling right now, and this is something I´d never thought I could handle - but I´m learning so much, and I´ve even made my second new blog header after only two weeks of learning ... So good luck with your own plans for this year, and have fun with OWOH! Oh, and please visit my own blog and see my giveaways :-)

Hope you have oodles of fun during OWOH. I've enjoyed it so much over the years. Thanks for your generosity and participation in the event. Love your creativity. I fell instantly in love with your darling Sock Imp in your previous post. Count me in please, I'd love to make something from the fabric.Jodyvisionquest2020 AT msn DOT com

This fabric is awesome! I love the zebra and that seafoam dot is SO WONDERFUL! As for your question...I am making dolls! It is a totally new thing for me (about a year) and I NEVER would have thought I was even capable of doing it, but I love it and that is exactly what I would use these fabrics for! jinglesells at gmail dot com #357

Hey Miss Mary! My husbands the sewer in our family, my mother was a artist when she sewed, and now my 16 year old makes her own shorts & SupaNova Dress up outfits (Naruto, Sailor Moon) such a cool gift! By the way I'm pleased to meet you (I'm Shelle from Sunshine Coast Australia) If you have time I'd love you to come on over check out my giveaways & comment at my OWOH post too :) One World One Heart... It's a marathon BUT SO MUCH FUN!!!!http://sunshineshelles.blogspot.com/

I never thought that I would get the chance to just sit around for a bit without scrambling to earn a living. i am enjoying this short respite. Please add me to your giveaway and come over and visit me on my blog too. I am #229 on the list.

What I am doing I never thought I would be is living in New Mexico again. I moved away 20+ years ago and just moved back. Not sure I like the snow we're getting but I'll eventually get used to it I suppose.

Thanks for stopping by my blog to visit. I really appreciate it. I hope you will visit again soon. And thanks too for participating in OWOH event. I'm having a wonderful time getting to know more people out in blog land.

Thx for lovin my art so much...and way cool on the reaction to the "love story"...it is pretty amazing and I'm living it...great comments...loved it...thx again....oh and I don't know anything about quilting so I wouldn't want to waste the gift someone else would love to use...but just in case my number comes up, let me know and we'll pick a new one! Thx again for all your fun...june #75

actually... a few years ago i thought i would never come near a sewing machine (sort of school trauma...) - but now i love it; well, guerilla sewing, that is... i do not strive for perfection, but it gives me so much joy to work with fabrics!

what a lovely gift, I love fabric and quilt when I find the time, my first love is sculpting with polymer clay , please stop by and visit my blog for my giveawayBabesbyBarb.blogspot.comb_guilford@yahoo.com

The fabric you offer is diversified enough to please everyone I think. I would love to add it to my stash. Please also come by to see me at number 92. I do some quilting but it is by machine...I am a sculptor.

Great fabric!Something I never thought I'd be doing? My son needs a shirt to wear under a suit on Saturday. I've lengthening the sleeves 9 cm by using the lower halves of the sleeves from another shirt. Now I'm in the process of narrowing it. I've done one side and tomorrow will do the other. He won't be here until Friday, so hopefully it will fit.

Love the fabrics, pick me, pick me! I love to sew and make purses, bags, wallets (one of my gifts), I also make all natural body butters and lip butter (self taught because I hated the chemicals in story bought)- also one of my gifts. I do not believe anything is impossible if you truly set your heart to the task!

Hi Miss Mary! I love the photo of you and your grandmother and seeing her stitches. I've supported myself with only my music and art for the last 7 yrs. Sometimes I worry about things but most the time I am so grateful that I can do what I love so much!cathyguitarteacher-77 at yahoo.comhttp://www.cathyhorner.blogspot.com

The fabric is fab! I mainly use fabrics to embellish my cross stitched pieces. I love all kinds of designs.Please enter me in your draw and come on over to my blog #348 and toss your name in the hat if you wish. Thanks!www.diadsie.wordpress.com

Hello, nice to meet you. I retired a few years ago and have lots of time on my hands so I have decided to take up quilting. I do all kinds of sewing but I have never quilted in my life. I recently went into a store for quilters and I bought a few fat quarters...even though I had no idea what a fat quarter was and I was too embarrassed to ask:) When I got home I googled it LOL....Now I know:)

I love your "rules". I have a little trouble with #2. As a fellow stitcher I really appreciate your blog. I, too, went back to school, at the age of 34, for a whole new career. Which I left behind to have babies. At the age of 44 and 46. Nothing is impossible.

How fortunate and special are you to own and hang your grandmother's handstitched quilt! WOW!From one crazy quilter to another I would be sofortunate to win some lovely fabric for my work.Pop over to my blog and check out my quilts and fibre work and put your name in my draw.The quilt is so special and makes a lovely background.x Suzy

Hello from southeastern Massachusetts. I have enjoyed your blog.I will be back after OWOH is over. Thanks for the opportunity of winning you fabric giveaway. I LOVE fabric. Also, my mom and granddaughter's name is Lillian. :-)Stop and visit my blog #634http://elaineakers.blogspot.comEAkers@aol.com

Something I did not expect: A couple of years I started my blog and called it Borduurblog (it is Dutch, the translation is Embroidery Blog). But in 2011 I suddenly lost my interest in embroidery (temporarily of forever, I am not sure) and now I am only knitting and crocheting!

I am probably the only artist in the world who works in fabric, who doesn't have a huge stash. I would be honored to own this fabric. I love what you have chosen for us. I'm number 11 and hope you drop by.

Thanks for stopping by my blog (3AM Designs)! I have had fun visiting your here and looking at your quilts! I love quilts - have them on my beds, and I have some heirlooms that I'm afraid to put out. Have fun with OWOH!Tonitj4heels@gmail.com

something impossible that I am doing....I am proud of the fact that I raised three young men by myself and they all turned out to be really good men. It wasn't always easy and they weren't always angels but overall, I'm pretty proud of them and me. Come visit me at #777 :) and good luck with starting school.

Oh you have such a wonderful blog and love the fact that your design was influenced by Lillian! Oh and your fabric give away, My heart skipped a beat when I saw the zebra print! I need more to complete my husband's jungle print quilt. I have been skimping on that print in trying to finish. I shall have to keep my fingers crossed! Visit me too #220 needlewings at mac.com

I would love to win these fabrics , being a quilter they would have a great home ;-) What have I done or am doing , well how about having my teenage grandson live with us for his last two years of schooling ,sure didn't expect that .

Hello from Thailand! Thanks for such a nice introduction about your great grandmother. As for the sharing part, one thing that I'm doing now which I thought was impossible is that I'm earning through my blogs. As a SAHM, I never thought that i could earn something just by blogging and in a way it has blessed our family tremendously :)

it took me a while to get to your post because I was stalled at your banner....LOVE that image. It told me so much about you, and your blog without even getting to scroll down.

What a pleasure to visit and read about what you're doing. In answer to your question, I had always thought that I would have become a wife and parent by this point in my life, but instead I've traveled the world performing and directing, and now I'm looking into the possibility of getting some gallery space for some of my art quilts....I love the life I'm living...even if it is far from what I imagined it to be!

As for your gift-a-way, I can never resist the call of fabric...count me in! And please swing by and visit my site when you get the chance.www.thelightifind.blogspot.com(#535)

Hello Miss Mary from Tennessee. Thanks for stopping by. I love your blog - please enter me in your giveaway - I love fabric :-). I've had a wee look around but I will be back for a longer visit when I have finished my OWOH world tour.

I am returning your visit to our blog (#208 on Lisa's fab list) thanks for visiting us!I wish I could adhere to your rule #2, but sometimes things sit on the shelf for a while and sometimes dinner doesn't get cooked because I am in the middle of finisihing and there's just that bit more to do!

Please enter us in your prizedraw, I hope we will be lucky.http://brittanyfaeries.blogspot.com/2011/01/one-world-one-heart-2011.html

Hello Miss Mary,It is wonderful to meet such a sweet person. I love the quilts that I have seen on your blog. Beautiful work. I would love to be entered into your great giveaway. Happy OWOH.wishes and whimsyWendy from Wonderland

Greetings from Cornwall, UUUMMMMMM ! this is a difficult one, well I never thought I would be addicted to blogging and entering lots of challenges LOL. Never mind there can be worst ways to spend spare time!

Something I never expected to be doing is fighting breast cancer; but it's going well so I am not complaining! I love how you're carrying on your ancestor's legacy with your sewing, and it looks like you're having fun! Thank you for stopping by my blog and entering my OWOH giveaway! Enjoy the rest of the event!

Miss Mary, I am contemplating designing my quilt design using some panels. We are also thinking about how to fix up our home so that we can renovate- it has involved decluttering 30 years of stuff!I love fabric and am a quilter- you are very fortunate to have some of Miss Lillian's pieces to treasure. I hope you are getting a chance to visit other blogs and meet some new penpals.Warmest regards from Western Canada,Annahttp://quiltmomsjourney.blogspot.com/

Lovely to meet you, please include me in your fabric drawing.I am disabled and have been for 5 years, mostly housebound. Since I only Got my degree in 2000, and was only working in my field for 5 years. That is definitely something I didn't expect to be doing. Which is why I have become a blogger, went back to my roots of art, in many forms, and a member of OPERATION WRITE HOME--making cards for our enlisted to be able to use to send home to loved ones.

Hi MissMary,yes, I know of Geiselwind - but I've never been there. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not exactly a centre of rockin' nightlife and exquisite culture, but a rather sleepy little town with a leisure park. Kind of like the Disneyland of upper Bavaria. What am I doing that I didn't expect to find myself doing? SURFING DOZENS OF GORGEOUS BLOGS LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE MAKING STUFF INSTEAD OF MAKING MY OWN (haha!) Really, I wish people wouldn't make such clever and inticing stuff - I might get more work done.Best wishes from near your ancestral home,The Gingerbread Ladyhttp://gingerschatz.blogspot.com/

Hello from Cody, Wyoming, USA. I enjoyed visiting your blog and getting to know a bit about you. I love your background...and that it is your gr-grandmother's quilting. How special that is. I have some old linens of my mother's that I treasure too. I do mostly mixed media and paper arts but do sewing and quilting too. Right now I am working on an art journal and on some embroidered pillowcases for a gift.Thanks for participating in OWOH. Please enter me in the drawing for your lovely offerings. If you haven't done so yet, please stop by and enter these giveaways too. # 385 http://stampgram.blogspot.com # 132 http://papertraders-art.blogspot.com/search/label/Home

i would love to win and use those textiles! i go to the city jail 3 times a month as my ministry, something i never thought i would do. thanks so much for the chance to win your giveaway. if you haven't yet, i hope you can drop by my blog at http://peggyapl.blogspot.com/ (#544) and join my OWOH giveaway. blessings!

What a lovely door prize, love the selection of color and pattern! I guess for this year I didn't expect to become a Grandma this year, but I am oh so excited! Thanks for the chance!HollyHBKHotie1@msn.com

Hey Miss Mary, It's wonderful to meet you and to discover your blog via OWOH. I like your "rules to govern creativity". I should print those out and keep handy for when I'm working! Something I never thought I'd do... blogging. However I'm a complete procrastinatrix when it comes to blogging. Love all that fabric. What a great giveaway. Please count me in. ~Michelle, OWOH #598~

From the Florida Gulf CoastI am entering for my daughter Melanie, she had wanted to participate in this year's event, but a fire changed her plans... I thought I would surprise her and do this for her..Visit the site I set up for her on my blog #579.. and enter her name in the contest, thank You

Mary, what a pleasure to run across your blog! It's just lovely, and I am signing up as your latest follower! I'm so anxious to take a look around and learn more of your beautiful work. I adore the header on your blog and that you've named it for your great-grandmother. It's so nice to find another blogger so connected to family and heritage.

Your giveaway is wonderful, and someone will be so fortunate! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. Meanwhile, I'll be coming back to visit with you again, and I hope you'll drop by for a visit with me when you have a few moments.

Hi, it's wonderful to meet you through this lovely event. I'd love for my name to be entered into your giveaway. Thank you in advance and have a wonderful day. :-) I'm off now to look at more of your blog!

Hello MissMary!! I sooo admire your work! It is sooo not my forte but I'm envious of those that do a fabulous job making it their own! Love it! Hello from Chilliwack, BC, Canada! Thanks for dropping by my blogs during the OWOH 2011 hop! Hope you’ve had a fabulous experience! It’s a pleasure meeting you! Keep your art alive!Hugs~Spike

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